You know the famous lines about the proud man drest in a little brief authority, but can you really identify the correct speaker? This Measure For Measure Quotes Quiz is meant to humble anyone who hasn’t studied the play’s most heated debates’ intricate dialogue. Hear the Bard’s verse below, and test your ear.
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Measure For Measure Quotes Quiz Questions
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
- Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it.
- The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
- Thieves for their robbery have authority when judges steal themselves.
- Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
- Go to your bosom; knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
- Lord Angelo is precise; stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses that his blood flows.
- The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
- O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
- Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
- Shame to him whose cruel striking kills for faults of his own liking!
- Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- Who will believe thee, Isabel?
- Might there not be a charity in sin to save this brother’s life?
- Death is a fearful thing.
- More than our brother is our chastity.
- The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
- ’Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
- The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
- Say what you can, my false o’erweighs your true.
- Craft against vice I must apply.
- He who the sword of heaven will bear should be as holy as severe.
- Justice, O royal Duke! Vail your regard upon a wronged maid.
- Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure.
- Music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
- Twice treble shame on Angelo, to weed my vice and let his grow!
- Let there be some more test made of my metal.
- The law will not allow it to you.
- When once our grace we have forgot, nothing goes right.
- He who sins most deserves most punishment.